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radices

American  
[rad-uh-seez, rey-duh-] / ˈræd əˌsiz, ˈreɪ də- /

noun

  1. a plural of radix.


radices British  
/ ˈreɪdɪˌsiːz /

noun

  1. a plural of radix

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Huic tanto malo, quod eo longi�s dissimulatum, tanto alti�s radices agit, viresque acquirit in dies, diutius differre remedium, justitia, qu� sua cuique asserere et fortiter tueri jubet, et pastoralis nostra erga ecclesiam sollicitudo non sinit.

From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)

Lond, skip, flaska, sumar, hamar, ketill, dal, are clearly the radices respectively of land, ship, flask, summer, hammer, kettle, dale.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

The eldest child very dirty; the second, glands; the third, knock-kneed, pigeon chest; very  feeble, enlarged radices.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Sunt in hac Insula montes elati in coelum, quorum vertices perpetua niue candent, radices sempiterno igne æstuant.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard

Dicimus ergo baptisma dare omnium indulgentiam peccatorum et auferre crimina, non radere; nec ut omnium peccatorum radices in mala carne teneantur, quasi rasorum in capite capillorum, unde crescunt iterum resecanda peccata.”900.Ep., l.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

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